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422A.18 Disability allowances.

Subdivision 1. Upon the application of the head of the department in which a contributing employee is employed, or upon the application of the contributing employee or of one acting in the employee's behalf, the retirement board shall place the contributor on disability, provided the medical board, after a medical examination of the contributor made at the place of residence of the contributor or at a place mutually agreed upon, shall certify to the retirement board that the contributor is physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of further service to the city and recommend that the contributor be placed on disability.

The medical board shall consist of the city physician, a physician to be selected by the retirement board, and a physician to be selected by the employee. Disability of an employee resulting from injury or illness received in the performance of the duties of the city service shall be defined as duty disability. Disability incurred as a result of injury or illness not connected with the performance of such service shall be defined as nonduty disability. In order to be entitled to a retirement allowance for a nonduty disability an employee shall have rendered five or more years of service to the city.

Subd. 2. The amount of disability allowance under this section shall be the amount of service allowance to which the employee would be entitled under section 422A.15, notwithstanding the age requirements expressed therein; or the lesser of the following amounts: 50 percent of the final average compensation, or an amount equal to two percent of final average compensation for each year of allowable service for the first ten years, and thereafter 2.5 percent of final average compensation per year of allowable service, including in the latter assumed service between the date the disability occurred and the 60th birthday of the employee.

If the amount of annuity payable from the Minnesota postretirement investment fund to any class of annuitants is adjusted pursuant to section 11A.18, the amount of benefits payable from the disability benefit fund for that class of annuitants shall also be adjusted at the same time and rate.

Subd. 3. Payment of any disability allowance authorized by sections 422A.01 to 422A.25, shall commence three months after date of application provided that the applicant has not been restored to duty. Such payment shall be retroactive to date of application and shall continue throughout the full period of the disability subject to the same optional selections as are provided for service allowances; provided that when a disability beneficiary shall have attained the minimum age for retirement on a service allowance the disability allowance shall be discontinued only as provided by the terms of the option selected. Any employee eligible for a disability allowance who is also entitled to an allowance under a workers' compensation act and/or resumes a gainful occupation shall be entitled to receive during the period of such compensation only that portion of the retirement allowance provided by sections 422A.01 to 422A.25 which when added to such additional compensation does not exceed the salary of the employee at the time of disability.

Subd. 4. Once each year the retirement board may require any disability beneficiary while still under the established age for retirement to undergo medical examination by a physician or physicians designated by the retirement board, the examination to be made at the place of residence of the beneficiary or other place mutually agreed upon. Should the medical board report and certify to the retirement board that such disability beneficiary is no longer physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of duty, the beneficiary's allowance shall be discontinued and the head of the department in which the beneficiary was employed at the time of retirement shall, upon notification by the retirement board of the report of the medical board, reemploy the beneficiary at a rate of salary not less than the amount of the disability allowance, but after the expiration of five years subsequent to the retirement of such beneficiary the restoration to duty, notwithstanding the recommendation of the medical board, shall be optional with the head of the department. Should any disability beneficiary while under the established age for retirement refuse to submit to at least one medical examination in any year by a physician or physicians designated by the medical board, the allowance shall be discontinued until the withdrawal of such refusal, and should such refusal continue for one year, all the beneficiary's rights in and to any retirement or disability allowance shall be forfeited.

Subd. 5. Upon application of any beneficiary under the established age for retirement drawing a pension or a disability allowance under the provisions of sections 422A.01 to 422A.25, approved by the retirement board, the beneficiary may be restored to active service by the head of the department in which the beneficiary was employed at the time of disability. Upon the restoration of a beneficiary to active service the disability allowance shall cease.

Subd. 6. Repealed, 1975 c 152 s 4

Subd. 7. The board shall establish rules and regulations for the determination of earnings for purposes of this section.

HIST: 1973 c 133 s 18; 1973 c 770 s 12; 1974 c 74 s 1,2; 1974 c 76 s 12; 1975 c 152 s 2; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1977 c 399 s 17; 1980 c 607 art 14 s 45 subd 2; s 46; 1984 c 574 s 13; 1986 c 444

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